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What in the world is TK?! Terrific Kids? Well, yes, but actually TK stands for Transitional Kindergarten. All of my students are 5 years old and they have all been through a 4 year old Pre-K program. With the NC law 3 years ago they would have been able to enter public kindergarten. However in 2009, NC made a change to the birthday cut off which left over 13,000 students having to wait another year to start Kindergarten. Schools had to adjust their curriculum or add a whole new class...welcome to Transitional Kindergarten!

My name is Kristy Serdinsky aka Ms Kristy. I was born and raised in a small PA town and moved to NC 7 years ago. I am married and have a beautiful blended family with 4 children. My 2, Ethan and Isabella and my 2 awesome bonus kiddos, Allison and Madelyn.

I absolutely love teaching. Besides being a mom, it's the best job in the world! I teach a very small class at a private school here in North Carolina.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Teamwork

I am always telling the kids that we are a like a family. We need to work together as a team, solve problems as a team, and treat each other with kindness and respect.

We were already taking about kindess and respect during our Martin Luther King Jr. studies this week, so it just seemed like a good time to do a teamwork project.

I had several copies of a blank black and white butterfly. I handed them out to the kids. Each child had ONE crayon, a random color I chose for them that they had to color their butterfly with. When we were all done we looked at them. Did they look nice? Sure! We are so conscious now of staying in the lines and doing our best job coloring these days!

Now, let's put our butterflies aside and do this again. This time let's share just one copy of the butterfly. Each of you pick 3 spots on the butterfly to color with your one crayon, then pass it to your friend. Let's keep doing this until the entire butterfly is colored.

Done.

Look what we did! We each had only one crayon and our butterflies looked nice. But our butterfly that we ALL did together using teamwork...that was the most beautiful butterfly of all!